The America’s Cup Race on the Bay

This book presents a look at youth sailing around San Francisco Bay as they strive for the ultimate goal of reaching the America's Cup. This preview of the
2013 Youth America's Cup offers words of wisdom from members of Oracle Racing Team USA.

For over one hundred and fifty years, the America’s Cup has been the premier prize as yachtsmen have been pitted against sailors from around the world in
an effort to win this prestigious race. The author sheds new light on long-forgotten stories of the early quests for the coveted Cup using exciting
descriptions of the yachts, the races and the colorful personalities who longed to capture the greatest prize in yacht racing.

Bridges over the Bay

Alfred Zampa (1905-2000) lived a remarkable life that touched not only the bridge named in his honor, but many of the other bridges around the Bay Area. He
often worked hundreds of feet above the San Francisco Bay with only the spindliest of support, and he fell from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1936. Caught by
the safety net, he became a charter member of the ultra-exclusive "Halfway to Hell" club. (624.2097 R5638a)

The Bay Bridge combines suspension, cantilever, tunnel, and truss constructions in an astonishing 8.4-mile-long structure. President Herbert Hoover, who
was also an engineer, took up the cause of building the bridge, and the $80.8-million project began in 1933. Over the next three years and four months, the
underwater and above-water construction continued day and night. Roughly 6,500 workers built this amazing bridge, and 12 lost their lives in the process.

Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Current
bridge architect Donald MacDonald answers this question and others in a friendly, informative look at the bridge's engineering and 70-year history. This
accessible account is accompanied by 70 of MacDonald's own charming color illustrations.

Two of San Francisco's most famous landmarks are the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, which connect the city with Marin County to the north and Oakland to the
East. While Richard Dillon finds the Bay rather conventional-looking, he is unreserved in his admiration for the Golden Gate. Don DeNevi has selected
stunning photographs of the bridges' construction in the mid-1930s taken by Moulin Studios chronicling the gradual process by which the naked landscape of
the San Francisco Bay was transformed.

(624.5 D587h)

The Environment and Natural History of the Bay

This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and
coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing
conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. (712.0979 W1537c)

Written in an entertaining style for a wide audience, this complete primer delves into an array of topics including fish and wildlife, ocean and climate
cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration. More than sixty scientists, activists, and
resource managers share their views and describe their work. (508.7946 R8259n)

Islands in the Bay

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from
around the world. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book, published to
commemorate the immigration station's 100th anniversary. (304.873 L5117a)

As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history for over 155 years. Alcatraz served as a pivotal
military position until the early 20th century and in 1934 was converted into a federal penitentiary to house some of America's most incorrigible
prisoners. The penitentiary closed in 1963, and Alcatraz joined the National Park Service system in 1972. Since then, it has remained a popular attraction
as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

This coffee table-sized color book has gathered in one place more information about all The Islands of San Francisco Bay, in text and photos, than any
other. It focuses on Island ecology: birds, animals, plants and island topography. A collection of over 400 images showing dramatic nature scenery is
coupled with in-depth information on the many species of birds' migrations, nesting and history. (979.461 M3642i)

Naval history of the Bay

The surprise 1863 arrival of squadrons of Russian warships and thousands of Russian sailors in New York and San Francisco proved fortuitous, coming when
the Union feared British and French intervention on the Confederacy's behalf. The author investigates why the Russian Pacific Squadron came to San
Francisco; what happened during its nearly year-long visit; and how its presence influenced events. Kroll gives us a thorough examination of the Russians'
visit and its social, diplomatic, and military impact. (973.722 K919f)

This pictorial history of gun battery emplacements and other defenses is
filled from beginning to end with snapshots and photos, many gleaned from the archives of the Presido Army Museum. Taking a chronological path through the
events of the day, the book provides a very close picture of the lives and travails of the multitude of individuals involved--civilians as well as military
personnel.

In July 1944, a key month during World War II, the Battle for Saipan, in which African-Americans participated, was a turning point leading to victory
over Japan.
On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just outside SanFrancisco
exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors, but instead of being
honored, they were blamed for the accident. The aftermath of this incident led to the largest mutiny trial in US naval history. (940.5453 C1527c)

Recreation around the Bay

On a network of paths that ring the San Francisco Bay, high on the ridge line, the Bay Area Ridge Trail provides quickly accessible recreational
opportunities for Bay Area residents and visitors alike to hike, mountain bike, and ride a horse. (917.946 R898b 2008)

This Coastal Conservancy Book describes more than a hundred beautiful and interesting sites around the entire bay and on the ocean between Point Reyes and
Santa Cruz. Natural areas that are now accessible to wheelchair riders and others with limited mobility include parks, urban waterways, and trails.
(917.9461 L59w)

Sailing on the Bay

The definitive Guide for San Francisco Bay, this comprehensive cruising guide covers more than 70 destinations. The authors give detailed instructions on
how to get there safely, where to anchor or tie up, and what to do there. Indispensable for Bay boaters, the book includes 30 harbor diagrams and over 200
photos. (797.1097 M47c 2007)

Decades before San Francisco Bay was crisscrossed by bridges, an extensive network of ferries plied these green waters, moving passengers, vehicles, and
freight between San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, and Contra Costa Counties. Very few of the ferries survive today, but at one time, elegant
and sturdy vessels ruled the waves and supported the critical commerce of this region.

This book covers the creation of the Maritime Museum and the acquisition and history of such representative vessels as the square-riggerBalclutha, the sailing schooner C. A. Thayer, the scow schooner Alma, the ferryboat Eureka, the liberty ship Jeremiah O’Brien, and the World War II submarine Pampanito. (387.097 L578h)

This book is an amazing treatise on Bay Ferryboats, full of photos, and very readable. Mr. Harlan discusses the boats, the builders, the routes, the ferry
lines, the histories,
disasters, the coming and the passing of the great Bay Ferries. At one point some 55,000,000 riders per year rode these boats before the bridges doomed
them. There is a
photographic index for each boat, a boat-name index, a general index, and a glossary of ferryboat terms.

Actor Sterling Hayden loved the sea all his life. At the age of sixteen he dropped out of high school and went to sea as a mate on a schooner. By the time
he became an actor in the early 1940s and joined the marines during World War II (eventually becoming an OSS agent) Hayden had become an accomplished
sailor on a variety of ships. At the age of 22, in 1938, he was awarded the command of a square rigger, skippering it the 7,000 miles to Tahiti from
Massachusetts. In 1958 Hayden divorced both his wife and Hollywood and sailed away to Tahiti on his ship The Wanderer, with his four children and a
photographer aboard, leaving from San Francisco Bay. Hayden eventually wrote his autobiography Wanderer in the early 1960s in Sausalito. (B H3242a)

The Shoreline around the Bay

This book examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once
a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To understand this landscape Jasper Rubin not only explores the built environment
but also the major forces that have been at work in its redevelopment.

This is the one essential book for anyone who wants to explore the remarkably diverse San Francisco Bay shoreline. Comprehensive, compact, user-friendly,
and studded with full-color maps and illustrations, the Guide covers the more than 325 miles of the shoreline Bay Trail already open to the public, a
corridor that will eventually encircle San Francisco and San Pablo Bays with a continuous 500-mile network of bicycling and hiking trails. (917.946 Sa5208)

DVDs about the Bay

Follows five Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota who take part in a weeklong San Francisco-based program that culminates in a swim from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore. These youth are swimming for their lives and those of their families and friends. Their
mission is to remind themselves why they are doing this so that others will live.

Narrated by Robert Redford, Saving the Bay explores the history of the San Francisco Bay with four one-hour episodes tracing the Bay from its geologic
origins following the last Ice Age through years of catastrophic exploitation to restoration efforts of today. This spectacular high definition series
takes viewers on an unforgettable journey around the waters of the Bay Area's most treasured natural resource. (DVD 304.2091 SAVI)

Websites about the Bay

This is the official website for the 2013 America’s Cup Summer of Racing, which will run from July 4th to September 21st. The site
offers information on tickets and hospitality, the concert series, and the Healthy Ocean Project, and features America’s Cup history, news, events,
results, photos, and videos. Visitors to the site can buy tickets, join the Fan Club, volunteer, shop, and much more.

What events, big and small, have shaped the San Francisco Bay? As part of the 2013 Year of the Bay celebrations we are gathering your photos, videos, audio
recordings, and memories to build up a picture of the diverse history of the Bay Area. Join us by telling your stories and help us crowdsource a new
history of the San Francisco Bay.

The Bay Model Visitor Center is a fully accessible education center administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which makes possible the viewing of a
scientific tool: a working hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta System.